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Re: .format won't display my value with 2 decimal places: Why?

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  Re: .format won't display my value with 2 decimal places: Why? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-01-25 09:51 -0700

#102095 — Re: .format won't display my value with 2 decimal places: Why?

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 2:20 PM, MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> The format method, on the other hand, belongs to the format string it's
> attached to. In this example:
>
>     'The new price is {}' .format(newPrice, '.2f')
>
> the format string is 'The new price is {}' and you're calling its 'format'
> method with 2 values for that string, the first being 4.0 (used) and the
> second on being '.2f' (unused).
>
> What you want is:
>
>     print('The new price is {:.2f}'.format(newPrice))

Why doesn't str.format raise an exception when passed extra positional
arguments?

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